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A Shell Midden Biblliography of Archaeology

Akazawa through Coutts

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Akazawa, Takeru
1980 Fishing adaptation of prehistoric hunter-gatherers at the Nittano Site, Japan. Journal of Archaeological Science 7(4):325-361.

Ambrose, W. R.
1967 Archaeology and shell middens. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania 2(3):169-187.

Anonymous
1992 Useppa: A shell tool workshop on Useppa Island. Calusa News 65.

Autry, William O .Jr. and Thomas C. Lothfield
1976 Species content of North Carolina coastal shell middens and their cultural implications. Southeastern Archaeological Conference Bulletin 1976-81.

Avery, G. and L. G. Underhill
1986 Seasonal exploitation of seabirds by Late Holocene coastal foragers: Analysis of modern and archaeological data from the Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science 13(4):339-360.

Bailey, G. N.
1975 The role of Molluscs in coastal economies: The results of midden analysis in Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science 2(1):45-62.

Bailey, Geoff, Roger Cribb, and Tim Stone
1991 [replies to Stone's 1989 article on shell mounds at Weipa, Australia]. Archaeology in Oceania 26(1):21-28.

Barber, Russell J.
1983 Diversity in Shell Middens: The View from Morrill Point. Man in the Northeast 25:109-125.

Barber, Russell J.
1982 The Wheeler's Site: A Specialized Shellfish Processing Station on the Merrimack River. edition. Cambridge: Peabody Museum Monographs, No. 7, Harvard University.

Benn, David W.
1986 Site testing for the interpretive cultural overview, Saylorville Lake, Iowa. Springfield, Center for Archaeological Research, Southwest Missouri State University. Vol. III, Project CAR-627.

Bennett, M. K.
1955 The food economy of the New England Indians, 1605-1675. Journal of Political Economy 63(5):369-397.

Bird, Douglas W. and Rebecca B. Bird
2000 The Ethnoarchaeology of Juvenile Foragers: Shellfishing Strategies among Meriam Children . Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 19(4):461-476.

Boszhardt, Robert F.
1982 Archaeological investigations in the lowland floodplain of Navigation Pool 10 near Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, Wisconsin. Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin.

Brown, Ian W.
1988 Some thoughts on the shrimping hypothesis and coastal ceramic diversity in the Lake Pontchartrain region. Mississippi Archaeology 23(1):34-42.

Cannon, Aubrey
2000 Settlement and sea-levels on the central coast of British Columbia: Evidence from shell midden cores. American Antiquity 65(1):67-77.

Carlson, Roy L.
1993 Soil science and a northwest coast shell midden. Review of Archaeology 14(1):15-20.

Casey, Joanna L.
1987 Aboriginal and modern mussel assemblages of the Lower Cumberland River (Appendix to Research in the Lower Tennessee-Cumberland-Ohio Region). In Southeastern Archaeology. Jack D. Nance, ed. Pp. 115-24.

Ceci, Lynn
1984 Shell midden deposits as coastal resources. World Archaeology 16(1):62-74.

Christenson, Andrew L.
1985 The identification and study of Indian shell middens in Eastern North America: 1643-1861. North American Archaeologist 6(3):227-243.

Claassen, Cheryl
2000 Quantifying shell: Comments on Mason, Peterson, and Tiffany. American Antiquity 65(2):415-428.

1991 Gender, shellfishing, and the Shell Mound Archaic. In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory. Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey, eds. Pp. 276-300. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

1993 Shell fragmentation: A look at formation processes. Society for American Archaeology meetings..

1992 Shell mounds as burial mounds: A revision of the Shell Mound Archaic. In Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky, Vol. 2. David Pollack and A. G. Henderson, eds. Pp. 1-11.

1986 Shellfishing seasons in the prehistoric southeastern United States. American Antiquity 51(1):21-37.

1983 Prehistoric shellfishing patterns in North Carolina. In Animals and Archaeology. Caroline Grigson and Juliet Clutton-Brock, eds. Pp. 221-223. London: University of London, BAR International Series 183.

Coan, E. V.
1965 Kitchen midden mollusks of San Luis Gonzaga Bay. Veliger 7(4):216-218.

Cook, S. F.
1946 A reconsideration of shellmounds with respect to population and nutrition. American Antiquity 11(1):50-53.

Coutts, Peter J. F.
1971 Recent techniques of midden analysis and studies of modern shellfish populations in New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, General 2(11):143-156.

1969 The state of preservation of shell material in midden sites. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, General 2123-127.

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